skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you’re missing the point - the good intentions don’t matter because they have no impact on the monetary reality - what actually happens is you unleash inflation, just like Trump’s tax cuts, Bidens’s stimulus and ironically-named “Inflation Reduction Act” and of course the Fed’s 2008 money printing which we’re only now paying for.

The super-rich whose net worth consists of large unrealised gains in stock are simply a product of this bad fiscal policy and are, believe it or not, helping, by acting as a buffer to absorb asset inflation. Remember that their wealth is imaginary - stock they can never sell in significant quantities - by forcing them to sell it and pumping the money back into the bottom half of the economy, what was previously imaginary money would now be real money flowing through the economy, causing the price of things consumers care about (i.e. not stocks) to go up.

The only solution is to fix the fiscal policy and stop printing money and running up deficits. Asset prices can return to normal levels and the super-rich’s net worth falls with them because it’s all stocks.

There’s nothing wild about this position, it’s just monetarism. If you expand the money supply without expanding the productive output of the economy, all you’ve done is make money worth less than it was before. The number of goods and services hasn’t changed, the cost to produce/import them hasn’t changed, demand hasn’t changed. You simply have slightly more money that represents a smaller fraction of the total money supply.
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I find menuconfig to be a not-very-great TUI (too much stuff per page for my taste), but the GDB tui is really nice/functional (tho also idiosyncratic).
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If that were the case, the theory is that the issues would not have increased after they went fare free. The increase may have been due to something else, though. Experimentation is probably the only way we will truly find out.
Doc who claimed Covid shots cause magnetism gets medical license back
Note: Nintendo's fiscal year ends march 31st.
Ongoing discussion [0] (24 points, 5 hours ago, 36 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40287519
If you offload data processing to the end user, then your data center uses less energy on paper. The washing part is that work is still being done and spending energy, just outside of the data center.
How old was the new CPU though? Probably the same or similar generation to what it originally came with since the socket needs to be the same.

IMO the switch to an SSD would have been the biggest boost.
At that point you could just call a GPU a CPU. There are manful distinctions to be made based on what the chip is used for exclusively.
If I’m considering ending the interview, I’ll instead critique it on the spot. It’s more interesting for everyone. If they pass me over, that’s fine - I’m already considering walking out anyway.

“Hey, can I stop you there for a minute? This interview style isn’t really working for me to the point that I’m considering cutting the interview short and heading out. Here’s why …” - and then have that conversation. Some people will take that badly - and that’s fine. But I have no idea what will happen next after saying something like that. And that makes it an interesting direction to take it.
And the latency of flash memory is several orders of magnitude higher than even the slowest interconnect used for internal SSDs.
Everyone seems as confused as I am about Apple's strategy here. I wasn't sure the M4 existed, now it can be bought in a format noone wants. How will this bring in a lot of revenue?
I've heard him say before that he is mainly successful due to the lucky circumstances of his birth; he's said that he paid very little to attend the UC system despite poor academic performance as an example.
I would be scared you are overengineering and optimising things though. I have seen people implementing complex paradigms and weird optimisations instead of writing simple code just to make sure they are perfectly optimising.

E.g. optimising client side code where N is likely never to be above 300, but instead of few simple lines, write a complicated solution to make sure it can scale to billions and beyond.

I would take any problem solving energy and spend it on side projects instead of doing leetcode. I do like those exercises, but I enjoy building new things more and which gives me practical experience which I think is more important.
> modern tower speakers have a vertical array of 2 or more drivers whose centers are aligned in a vertical line

But you cannot say that on HN. HN is the place where people believe soundbars are as good as high-end audiophile speakers!
the much more common symptom is loss of smell, characterized as "loss of taste" by laymen(/women/children). The very study you link to says so (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37265267/)
Skimming this filing, I really can't see how one could not decide in favour of TikTok.

It'd have to be the strangest judgement in the world.
The existence of vscode.dev always makes me wonder why Microsoft never released an iOS version of VSCode to get more users into its ecosystem. Sure, it's almost as locked down as the web environment, but there's a lot of space in that "almost" - you could do all sorts of things like let users run their code, or complex extensions, in containers in a web view using https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm or similar.
Actually the chairs were pretty comfortable. They were locked down to survive (in theory) the shaking resulting from nudets. The deputy launch commander’s was on a long track so he could slide back and forth to gather the redundant messages and reset alarms. The commander sat facing the missile light board.
Anybody wealthier pays taxes, why would they owe anything? At what point does one repay their debt? Does this abstract debt have a limit?
If I have a certain amount of time to spend and want a reasonable ratio of travel time to time-at-destination, some ratio that I prefer regardless of mode of travel, those are indeed the options I can choose from (e.g., driving to the next state or flying across the country). There will be many factors leading to a decision of which option to select, and if I want travel safety to be a factor, then the safety stats need to be presented as I'm describing.
They need not be mutually exclusive conclusions.
Yes this began with the acquisition of xnor.ai. Absolutely amazing what will be done (and is being done) with edge computing.
Postgres! I think you're right I just haven't got to it yet. Thanks for the flag
the absurdness was difference in claimed battery life vs actual battery life. 19 vs 2 is more absurd than 22.5 vs 12

> Speaking of the ThinkPad P72, here are the top three laptops with the most, er, far out battery life claims of all our analyzed products: the Lenovo ThinkPad P72, the Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1 and the Acer TravelMate P6 P614. The three fell short of their advertised battery life by 821 minutes (13 hours and 41 mins), 818 minutes (13 hours and 38 minutes) and 746 minutes (12 hours and 26 minutes), respectively.

Dell did manage to be one of the top 3 most absurd claims though.
I remember Scholastic would put on a big book fair twice a school year in our school's library. There would be tons of new/upcoming book series marketed that kids could buy (with their parent's money), along with the obligatory custom bookmarks and kid-oriented stationary. It targeted 8 to 12 year olds--maybe that was the practice pre-covid and booksellers have moved away from that sort of thing?
I don't know if that works out: A lot of people on the right I know are quite xenophilic in the sense of having a deep interest in other cultures etc, though not indiscriminately so.

The difference between them and much of the left is that they've come to reject oikophobia as wrong and are consciously oikophilic when it comes to their own culture and ethnicity, while the leftist configuration is oikophobic/xenophilic.

(Not to say there aren't oikophilic/xenophobic people, but I feel like that's more often an unthinking stance)
I can't buy a MacBook Air for less than $999, and that's for a model with 8GB RAM, an 8-core CPU and 256GB SSD. The equivalent (based on raw specs) in the PC world runs for $300 to $500.

How is something that is twice as expensive as the competition not a luxury device?

EDIT: Because there's repeated confusion in the replies: I am not saying that a MacBook Air is not objectively a better device. I'm saying it is better by metrics that fall strictly into the "luxury" category.

Better build quality, system-on-a-chip, better OS, better battery life, aluminum case—all of these are luxury characteristics that someone who is looking for a functional device that meets their needs at a decent price won't have as dealbreakers.
It sounds like maybe 165 N canal if my recollection from when I was condo shopping is correct (it was a bit above my price range, but I seriously envied the large storage space). The condo I ended up buying (a converted office building in the east loop) has a similar hall of storage rooms but they are much much smaller and not practical for anything other than storage.
I'd love to hear more about your experience with this platform. Is there any public information about this platform or research? How did you guys manage the bad behaviors that come with anonymity, like trolling?

I'm currently feeling out a little research project around the use of AI in improving group decision-making, specifically with the hope of improving our political systems. There are so few IRL case studies, it'd be great to have more intuition for this!

(I'm @dch on twitter if you'd prefer to DM)
> App stores are our new airwaves

App stores aren’t limited except artificially
What is the point of using LLMs for the scrapping itself instead of using them to generate the boring code for mimicking HTTP requests, css/xpath selectors, etc?

I get it may be interesting for small tasks combined with a browser extension but for real scrapping just seems to be overkill and expensive.
Former hospital system executive, wrote hacking healthcare for O'Reilly, created the open source ClearHealth/HealthCloud EMR...

One of the few times in managing hospital systems I was actually shocked at unethical behavior was when we took over management of a system that through accidents of history included a series of dentistry clinics. Dentists do not have any equivalent to a hippocratic oath, they have no professional obligation to be honest with their "patients". The overriding operational theme of the clinics was how to defraud "patients" with completely unecessary work to maximize profits and borderline defraud dental insurance. I understand that people have a dim view of ethics in american healthcare but this was what I would consider criminal behavior in a medical setting but as further experiences taught me, is the norm in american dentistry. Suffice it to say that we divested from the dentistry clinics asap.

Here is one swiss study showing that 30% of dentists committed fraud in the studed visits or were so incompetent that their behavior constituted fraud. I would guess that american dentistry is closer to 50%.

Have you had your wisdom teeth out? You are very likely to be the victim of dental fraud.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3135372/

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3036573
Bandwidth translates directly into better (igpu) performance
Maybe not in the traditional sense of a moat, but maybe that's OK. It's difficult to create a deep moat with the commoditisation of technology and higher barriers to entry.

Soon enough every company will be an AI company. So to create a moat it could be a case of creating a company that wasn't possible before AI that has the characteristics to create a moat - imagine something like a personal cooking assistant that links up with your health apps and buys your groceries for you, optimised for your health - add a yearly subscription for next-day delivery and you have your moat.
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> And what they got is an irremovable Zelensky with cronies so corrupt they even stole the SUVs that GM donated to evacuate refugees and drove them to work

Do you even think about what you say, or do you just copy and paste Russian cheap propaganda?

Like, Ukraine is being invaded in an annexation war, and arguably, genocide. They have Martial Law, which is used for these exact purposes.

And you're complaining that Zelenksy is "irremovable", coming from a supporter of Russia which is captured by one corrupt man who murders, arrests and presses political opposition.

Don't you find this even remotely absurd?

Like, do you even realize Zelenksy was democratically elected +70% of votes, and Putin was never democratically elected to represent Russians?
I used the TUI WordPerfect for SCO Unix/Xenix on various serial terminals and telnet/ssh connections for years. I still miss it for heads-down cranking out text.
Apple has committed that all of its products will be carbon-neutral - including emissions from charging during their lifetime - by 2030. The Apple Watch is already there.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-its-fir...
if the probability that you get a derivative close to 0 is small, say only 10%, then you need just 3 dimensions to get that multiplicative probability equal to a tenth of a percent. 3 is hardly “very large dimensionality”

you can assign different numbers, but still you will find you don’t need more than say 10 dimensions for this effect to happen.
Bingo. You forgot to add "with someone literally looking over your shoulder," though.

I've written AVL trees, B-trees, red black trees, and a bunch of other things people have named here. But, right now, without looking at any references, I couldn't even tell you how to balance an AVL tree, much less sit down and write out code for it.
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Which honestly is still good for the environment to have the work distributed across the entire electricity grid.

That work needs to be done anyways and Apple is doing it in the cleanest way possible.
What’s an alternative in your mind, just don’t do the processing? That sounds like making progress towards being green. If you’re making claims of green washing you need to be able to back it up with what alternative would actually be “green”.
Yeah, I would categorize this response as

> In my experience it's all pretty bad.
> the US has a very healthy launch industry.

What would a healthy launch industry look like? I don't think that 2022 article necessarily describes one. There is the long bet that won (SpaceX, reuse), the dino (ULA), a NZ transplant still mostly launching outside the US (RocketLab), some hopeful looking startups and always over the horizon Blue Origin.

This is a much better situation than the EU caught between the unpalatable antique (Soyuz) and the sailboat waiting for a cargo (Ariane 6).

However, it doesn't seem as healthy as the Chinese launch industry, which seems to have many providers launching and iterating with differentiated designs [0], bread-and-butter heavy launches from Long Marches (48 in 2023) [1] and continued work with the Tiangong space station [2]. It doesn't quite compute for me that commies don't have everything under proletarian central control, but they sure seem to be letting a hundred flowers bloom for now.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program#List_of_...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Long_March_launches_(2...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
You’re definitely onto something there. I highly recommend the book The Metaphysical Club which follows a specific group of thinkers (the Pragmatists) who formed much of the foundation of American legal theory.

The TLDR: Every legal system is governed primarily by the “moral culture” and constructed to defend/enact/perpetuate that culture. When the moral culture changes enough, the laws will change (or the interpretation or application of the laws for the same de facto effect).

So the question for all of us is how to steer the moral culture in preferred directions, which is why I was calling out your initial comment! It’s not good for people to come to the belief that laws don’t matter — such a belief is self-fulfilling at certain scale.
The Windows 10 image my employer uses for our Dell shitboxes has sleep completely disabled for some reason I cannot possibly comprehend. The only options in the power menu are Shut Down, Restart, and Hibernate.

If I forget to hibernate before I put it in my bag it either burns through its battery before the next day, or overheats until it shuts itself down. If I'm working from home and get up to pee in the night, I often walk past my office and hear the fans screaming into an empty room, burning god knows how much electricity. Even though the only thing running on it was Slack and an editor window.

It's an absolute joke of a machine and, while it's a few years old now, its original list price was equivalent to a very well specced MacBook Pro. I hope they were getting a substantial discount on them.
Skill gives you the gift of choice. You know how to write it either way around and it’s up to you to decide. Being able to correctly decide when to hack something inefficient together and when to optimise is another skill issue. It’d make a good interview question, that.
I posted "Ask HN: What do you think about Nintendo phone competing with iPhone/Android?" [0] 8 months ago. Wondering if anyone else thinks it might be a phone.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385793
"Capable of falling within the provisions of the Convention" means that South Africa can bring the case and the ICJ can rule on it. The ICJ very explicitly did not make a determination about whether Israel had violated the convention. I quoted the numbered graf that says exactly that.

What you're reading about is the ICJ equivalent of a preliminary injunction. An injunction is a court order issued before the case is decided. Injunctions are based on balancing tests: some likelihood of irreparable harm must exist, and some likelihood that the movant will succeed at trial must exist. The more harm you demonstrate, the less likelihood you need to demonstrate, and vice versa.

Here, the harm South Africa is concerned about is of the gravest type possible.

Again: it is just not accurate to suggest that the ICJ has determined Israel has committed acts of genocide. It's "not even wrong"; the decision you're referring to is an interim provisional ruling.
You should see how hard every trucker and good ol' boy here in the USA whines and moans about weight limits and blames BIG GUMMINT for ruining their day. The fact that they are doing exponentially more damage to the pavement, wearing it out much faster doesn't occur to them.
There's no Taiwanese silicon industrial complex, there's TSMC. The rest of Taiwanese fabs are irrelevant. Intel is the clear #3 (and looks likely-ish to overtake Samsung? We'll see).
The government decided to dig a third tunnel in one case because they calculated the economic damage would be greater if they had to close one tunnel for several years than digging the 3rd. Also this 3rd tunnel will not be used after construction other than for emergency evacuation. The 3rd tunnel was only approved under condition that capacity will not be increased.
Mechanical engineering interviews seem to do the same as software:
"Engineers always ask about beam bending, stress strain curves, and conservation of work. Know the theory and any technical questions are easy."

Basically an equivalent of simple algorithmic questions. Not "real" because it's impossible to share enough context of a real problem in an interview to make it practical. Short, testing principles, but most importantly basic thinking and problem solving facilities.
That's absolutely not what I said though, just that it makes sense.

Personally I wish for as many games as possible to exist, the more options the better, even if some are bad.
That leaves out a lot of work that folks do that don’t affect either of those directly.
Sometimes the work is done at night. Sometimes, they just tear up the road and do nothing for a year.
I've had it enabled by default for years and years. It's always what I want.

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I’ve had success using cloud dev environments with an iPad - the key for me was also using a mouse and keyboard - after things weren’t _that_ different
> Are you heavily invested in Apple stock or somehting?

This isn't a nice thing to say.
I don't understand what the implied threat is supposed to be here. That TikTok harvests... American GPS data? That the CCP might use TikTok to find the real world locations of American military bases? How would that even work? Why would China need TikTok to accomplish this? They have spy satellites. If they want to send the ICBMs over they already know where Washington DC is.

This is comic book logic, this isn't rational.
Leave it open-ended and include code with multiple levels of bad so it's not just a quiz. I used real C code that research scientists had given me. If they look at it and say there's no reason this should be in C and in a dynlang instead, that is fine. If I hand them C code where the entire program is a 1000-line main function, with lots of repetition, hard coded file names, and fixed-sized string buffers, and all they tell me is the indentation is icky: that's a negative signal.
100m at 1 lane is around 430SY. That's probably 2hrs of milling and an hour of tacking and paving, with maybe another hour or so for incidentals. So you may only get half a workday of production. For time consuming repairs, like full-depth replacement, the setup time cost may not be significant.

Keep in mind, though, you don't lose a lane of traffic. There is no need to truck in jersey barriers. You don't have to build an entire temporary detour road. You don't pay a consultant $200/hr to design a traffic control plan.

I think the real value is safety. The crew is shielded by the bridge and you have complete grade separation from traffic. That's a lot better than an orange barrel being the only thing between you and a minivan.
Nonsense were a lot of your replies in my experience :), this "measure everything" is very much another cargo cult. Software engineering is complex, people are complex, thinking you can come with a true metric and who doesn't have it doesn't know what they're doing is the nonsense in my world view.

Have excited engineers, pay them well, have them work on something that is aligned with their career & deliver value to their customers, they don't really need much more than that. All the rest is simply trying to "processi-ze" what is a human
> Take a closer look at how much homework children have, and how much assigned, mandatory reading children have.

Yeah. My nine years old goes to a school where there's no homework. She now reads a lot: kids at school all shares any cool book they read and then they all want to read it. Today she brought back a brick and started reading it. She devours book.
Find a nice local book store and go have a look around at what looks interesting to you.
Telegram is blocked in China. It would’ve been better to use something federated like Matrix
You can buy a cheap dongle to plug your headphones into the USB-C port. It works fine, but now you have the problem of keeping track of the dongle when they kids unplug it.